| Series Title | European Voice |
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| Series Details | 12/09/96, Volume 2, Number 33 |
| Publication Date | 12/09/1996 |
| Content Type | News |
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Date: 12/09/1996 As well as all-purpose communiqués, there was Irish hospitality aplenty for Tralee-goers. Not surprisingly free pints of Guinness were available to stop journalists getting sore throats, but the most novel gift was available only to the politicians - a sign on a garage forecourt just outside Tralee promised: “Free car wash for EU ministers.”(Could play havoc with the hair-do and the suit.) But UK Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind, for one, must have decided not to take advantage of the car wash offer, because he had to nip off and have a bath on the first night of the Tralee meeting just when he was supposed to be briefing the press. The news was broken to UK journalists when they started enquiring why all the other foreign ministers were available for comment and Rifkind was missing. The foreign secretary, announced Rifkind's spokesman imperiously, was taking a bath - presumably because it is easier than coming clean over UK government policy. |
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| Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations |
